South Dakota Seeks Medicaid Work Requirements For Two Counties

South Dakota plans to ask CMS for permission to add work requirements to its Medicaid program in the state’s two most populous counties but nowhere else in the state, even as other states face criticism over efforts to exempt certain geographic areas from their Medicaid work-requirement proposals. South Dakota officials hope to use the two counties as pilot locations to test the success of Medicaid work requirements and intend to review the possibility of expanding the program to other locations,...